While denying the legitimacy of the elections the opposition parties are trying to end popular protests and enter into ...

Daniel Chapo was sworn in at a time of widespread anger directed at his party, Frelimo, which has led the country for 50 years and was accused of rigging the election. Daniel Chapo was sworn in as ...

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A local civil society monitoring group says more than 300 people have been killed in clashes with security forces since the Oct. 9 vote, which the opposition says Frelimo won through vote-rigging ...

Before being elected Frelimo presidential candidate, Chapo was relatively unknown and had little experience in national politics. His first appointment was as an administrator of the district of ...

Opposition leader Mondlane, who is popular with Mozambique’s youth, asserts the results were rigged in favor of the ruling Frelimo party that has been in power for 50 years. Over the weekend ...

He was Venâncio Mondlane, a distant kinsman of Eduardo Mondlane, the first president of Frelimo (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique). Venâncio’s family supported the liberation movement ...

The instability in Mozambique may worsen when Daniel Chapo of Frelimo is inaugurated as president on Wednesday. Opposition candidate Venâncio Mondlane returned to the country last week after having ...

Daniel Chapo of Mozambique’s long-ruling Frelimo party has been sworn in as president of the country. Taking the oath in front of a group of approximately 1,500 supporters on Wednesday ...

Frelimo denies accusations of electoral fraud. It has ruled Mozambique since the end of the war against Portuguese colonial rule in 1975, clinging on throughout a 15-year civil war that killed a ...

The 47-year-old, a member of the Frelimo party, was elected in October last year. However, his election was met with widespread violence, after the opposition party accused the polls of being rigged.